I think the first people who should be thanked

are parents.

Unkowning the consequeses

and without the will to come,

I was somehow brought here in the world by parents.

I have little impression about my father,

because my father passed away when I was two years old

There was only my mother in my childhood's memory.

I kept in mind many segments.

When I was a child, my mother took me with her to her workplace.

I remember once it rained heavily,

my mother's working hours were from 2 pm to 10 pm.

Since it rained heavily,

mother put me on her back.

My family was so poor at that time that we didn't have an umberella.

So mom used a piece of plastic cloth

to cover me. I raised the cloth to cover mother and me,

walking in the rain.

Every segment of memories like this is very impressed.

Because of mom's care,

when I was young, children in neighborhood could ride a bike

which my mom didn't allow me to do.

Friends could swim but mom didn't allow me to learnt it.

So, in fact

when I came to the martial arts team,I couldn't do many things my team mates could.

It seemed that I couldn't do anything but perfect Kongfu.

Perhaps that's how a mother

took all efforts, her heart and soul,

to protect her child.

We stayed in school 6 days a week.

It was not until Saturday evening that we could go back home.

But mom always came to me on Wednsday

when she was not at work

She came to school and had a look at me.

She brought me some things like snacks

In fact it was against the rules of school.

but because of mom's persistency

my coach couldn't do anything about it

but let her in.

Others' parents didn't come while only my mom came.

I held complex mood as a child.

Sometimes I was happy with it,

but sometimes a little... well,

blamed my mother.

feeling embarrassed about it.

In the process of my life,

mom always gave her love to me

in her own way.

But at the age of teens or twenties,

I hadn't agreed with the way my mom loved me.

until

until

I had my own kid

Only by that time, could I know

the greatness of mom.

My mom did everything

out of the hope of watching her kids grow healthily.

Even when the kids took mistakes,

all she gave was tolerance.

So I always respect females.

I think, mother is

just like the earth

where you can get anything you seed.

No matter the seeds are good or bad, it will accompany you

without any regrets.

In the year of 2000

my mom

was heavily sick

I was working in France then.

When my sister called me and told me mom's illness,

I knew it was already very late and serious.

So I returned hurrily from France

and asked my sister why I was informed so late.

My sister told me that

mom said

you are afraid of seeing the dead

and death made you upset.

So she didn't want to call you back.

In fact,

I was very grown

but forever

in the mother's eyes

kid is always kid.

I recalled in my childhood

I read the fairy tale Snow White

in fact I was not too young then, already 5 or 6.

The...the...old witch

who gave the Snow White an apple

showed her real image:

her face was green,

in my colorful comic book

the face was so green

and the tongue was ugly.

I was frightened after reading

perhaps I was more timid than girls then

I was too frightened to fall asleep at night.

Crying and disturbing, I draged my sister to take me to mom.

Sister didn't have another choice

but took me to the street

on which mom must went when back

Despite coldness, I was waiting there for a long time

So maybe just because mom remembered I was timid when I was young

or mom really thought I was afraid of the dead

when she was going to pass away

she urged my sisters again

not to call me back.

But this reason, to a man

who was already adult

could not be a reason.

In fact, I knew

that I couldn't help at that time

nor could the doctor.

What I could do for mom was

buying a tape of Buddhist scripture

and placing it beside her bed

playing it over and over.

and I murmured along the tape beside her,

wishing her to have a good hereafter.

I told my mom in my heart

as your son,

I strived to

help the family

with my all efforts.

In the future,

I swear,

that I will give more of my light and warmth

to make more people happy and blessed.

or at least,

to relieve the sorrow sufferd by people.

I will try my best

to thank

to repay

what you brought me to this world.

You brought me to this world

more than hoping me to do good things only for a small family,

but perhaps for more.

Though you left,

to repay and thank you for birthing and raising me

I will do good things for others

in the rest of my life.

I will give my love and care.

So I want to tell mom

wherever you are

I promise you

that I will do my best.

I promise that I will,

to thank you and father

for bringing me to this world once.

Mom's deep affection

that is so tolerant

should be unforgotten in the whole life

for everyone.

We are not expected to not understand our parants until

we ourselves become parents.

In fact,

if everyone can find it out earlier

that now we can live on the earth,

we can have happiness,

we can fall in love and

secceed in career or whatever.

If without parents's caring since we are very little,

without sacrifice our parents gave unrepently,

there would not be anything.

So to be grateful for parents

is the most basic requiement

for a human, I think.

So I thank my parents deeply.